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The project had another layer of resonance for Mr. Williams, who was raised in Virginia Beach, not far from the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, where Hidden Figures takes place. Growing up, he said, he had a kind of mystical reverence for the NASA facilities: "We knew the bigger questions were being answered there".
Shetterly was still writing her book when production of the film began – it was only just released in September – but she was also available to the filmmakers as they sought to condense a story spanning a few decades into their setting of just a couple of years.
Hidden Figures's narrative trajectory involves not just progress that emerges, too often, from pettiness, but also thematic elements of the white savior, and of a culturally enforced tiara syndrome. All those things effectively temper the idealism of its message.
